No matter what the critics say, FTP still is the best way to transfer your web pages and associated files to the server. FileZilla is an open source, simple, quick and reliable FTP client that packs in a lot of features. The software targeted at the 32 bit Microsoft Windows platforms, is licensed under the GNU General Public License. All in all, a must have for all the site administrators out there.

Here’s a listing of some of it’s features.

• FTP & SFTP Protocol support
• Site Manager to store connection & initialization details
• Support for Proxy
• Multi-threaded download/upload
• ASCII/Binary/Auto Transfer Modes
• Download/Upload En-queuing

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Notepad++ is a free, light weight but powerful editor which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. With features such as syntax highlighting and folding, full drag & drop support, auto completion, regular expression search/replacement this tool is a must have. It can also be set as the default HTML editor, so when you click on View > Source under Internet Explorer, the HTML code will open with Notepad++. Another plus point is that it has a plugin architecture which allows further extendability. One of the bundled plugins is a Hex Editor.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure Win32 API and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

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• Full list of features
• Screenshots
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